Five Things To Do With….Flat-Backed Pearls

Elaine from Quixotic Cards challenged me to use flat-backed pearls in five different ways. She gave me two weeks to do it and I took a month! So I’ve failed already but I thought I would show you anyway LOL!

All the pearls are available from Quixotic Paperie in lots of scrummy colours and lots of different shapes and sizes.

I had initially thought that I would do five different cards with five different uses for the flat-backed pearls but then I just got a bit carried away and crammed all the uses on the same card!

Ok a little weird this one but I wanted to add some paint to the background paper and thought I would play with using the pearls to make marks. So I covered some cardboard with a thin layer of silicone glue and added some of the 4mm flat-backed pearls and let it dry to make a flat-backed pearls stamp!

Then I added acrylic paint and dragged it across the paper. Followed this with a bit of sparkle using Fire-engine red Shimmerz paint and Pixie dust Shimmerz Blingz using my ad hoc flat-backed pearl stamp 🙂

Well I had a lot of fun with this, once I started I kept coming up with different uses for the flat-backed pearls there is so much you can do with them.

I would absolutely love to hear how you use yours.

Right, now I have to pass the baton over to Elaine and set her a ‘Five Things To Do With’ Challenge and I was thinking I would love to see what she does with the fabulous Bazzill Jewels Templates…Over to you Elaine 🙂

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Kim Dellow is an artist–designer–film-maker living the creative life in London, UK. She's a freelance creative for the craft industry and others, and she loves to share her art-ventures on her blog.
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